Oh my! I haven't updated my blog in almost a month. I honestly didn't realize that much time had past. My head has been buried in all my books. I estimate that I have two library shelves stacked up in our apartment ... thereabout. I'm a book hoarder, I know. But I never know when I might need a particular book and it's just safer to keep them for five months at a time.
BTW - Thanks everyone for your comments on my last post. I don't think I'm really any closer to my own definition, but it's something I continue to contemplate.
I am about 8 to 10 hours of work away from finishing the first draft of my research essay. I can't believe how anticlimactic it all feels. Nearly two years of thinking and writing about one topic and I really feel like I have a dwindling kind of relationship with this paper. I loved the subject in the beginning and now, I feel like it has sucked so much of my energy that I'd be fine with just dumping it. Overall, I think when this is over I will have a much better idea of my capabilities. There were so many points that I just wanted to give up and drop out, when I was so depressed and caught up in a personal identity crisis, that finishing this - actually finishing this degree - will likely be one of the greatest accomplishments of my life. A personal accomplishment more than anything because ultimately I will have defeated that part of me that was constantly saying "you can't do this." So there - f!@# you negative Alex, hello Master A-Fo!
Finally, I am so proud of my mom and dad for redoing their living room. No more pink carpet! Only gorgeous hardwood from now on.
2 comments:
You should be soooo proud of yourself. You have come through the other side of a master's degree without too many extra ticks. Congratulations. Celebrate hard and long when the paper is fully finished and defended, but celebrate now too, cause it is the little accomplishments that make up the big ones.
As for the Oxford who's who, What the f%&^? A Chilean version of Grandpa? He has his ears, nose and chin.
I know hey. So weird. I kinda think Judy might be right!
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